Ezekiel 6:5
I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
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- 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.
- 2 Kgs 23:16 : 16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it, just as in the LORD’s message that was announced by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. Then the king turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.
- Jer 8:1-2 : 1 The LORD says,“When that time comes, the bones of the kings of Judah and its leaders, the bones of the priests and prophets and of all the other people who lived in Jerusalem will be dug up from their graves. 2 They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.
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- Ezek 6:3-42 verses87%
3Say,‘Mountains of Israel, Hear the word of the Sovereign LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
4Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.
- Ezek 6:6-72 verses83%
6In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out.
7The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Lev 26:29-335 verses82%
29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
31I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.
32I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.
33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
- Ezek 6:13-142 verses76%
13Then you will know that I am the LORD– when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
14I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
- Jer 8:1-22 verses75%
1The LORD says,“When that time comes, the bones of the kings of Judah and its leaders, the bones of the priests and prophets and of all the other people who lived in Jerusalem will be dug up from their graves.
2They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.
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5He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.
- Ezek 5:9-113 verses73%
9I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.
10Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.
11“Therefore, as surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you.
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5I will put your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your maggot-infested carcass.
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21So, this is what the LORD says:‘I will assuredly make these people stumble to their doom. Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction. Friends and neighbors will die.’
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32But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness,
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16When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it, just as in the LORD’s message that was announced by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. Then the king turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.
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5I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’
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14He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.
- Mic 5:13-142 verses72%
13I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.
14I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.
- Ezek 11:6-72 verses72%
6You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.’
7Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says:‘The corpses you have dumped in the midst of the city are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it.
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5you who inflame your lusts among the oaks and under every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
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2Their hearts are slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The LORD will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.
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16In this way I will pass sentence on the people of Jerusalem and Judah because of all their wickedness. For they rejected me and offered sacrifices to other gods, worshiping what they made with their own hands.”
- Mic 1:6-72 verses72%
6“I will turn Samaria into a heap of ruins in an open field, into a place for planting vineyards! I will dump the rubble of her walls down into the valley, and lay bare her foundations.
7All her carved idols will be smashed to pieces; all her metal cult statues will be destroyed by fire. I will make a waste heap of all her images. Since she gathered the metal as a prostitute collects her wages, the idols will become a prostitute’s wages again.”
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14“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.
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11I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.
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5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.
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15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.
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7In this place I will thwart the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will deliver them over to the power of their enemies who are seeking to kill them. They will die by the sword at the hands of their enemies. I will make their dead bodies food for the birds and wild beasts to eat.
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31When you present your sacrifices– when you make your sons pass through the fire– you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will not allow you to seek me!
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9Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.
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11Then he said to me,“Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying,‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
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7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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5Take the choice bone of the flock, heap up wood under it; boil rapidly, and boil its bones in it.
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3The women singing in the temple will wail in that day.” The Sovereign LORD is speaking.“There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!”
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7then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations.
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14Oracle of Judgment against the King of Nineveh The LORD has issued a decree against you:“Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave– because you are accursed!”
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39On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.
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4Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.
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36This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children you have given to them,
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28I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.
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14“Certainly when I punish Israel for their covenant transgressions, I will destroy Bethel’s altars. The horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.